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Title: Airplanes are really interesting!!!
Post by: MNHighwayMan on October 15, 2019, 10:46:59 PM
Let's talk about them here. Because god knows chat is full of it!!!
Title: Re: Airplanes are really interesting!!!
Post by: corco on October 15, 2019, 10:48:05 PM
Zoomy zoom GOD SAVE THE QUEEN AND ALL HAIL THE TRIJETS
Title: Re: Airplanes are really interesting!!!
Post by: US 89 on October 15, 2019, 10:55:40 PM
CRJ-200s are underrated.
Title: Re: Airplanes are really interesting!!!
Post by: ozarkman417 on October 15, 2019, 11:20:55 PM
Who's going to buy the new Microsoft Flight Simulator in 2020? I have four hundred hours on Microsoft Flight Simulator X: Steam Edition (2006) which has the WORST multiplayer experience.

SM-G965U

Title: Re: Airplanes are really interesting!!!
Post by: nexus73 on October 15, 2019, 11:54:02 PM
Planes, like bumblebees, are too big to fly, thus all the plane crashes...LOL!

On a more serious note, look at how fast we went from slow flimsy biplanes to jet aircraft and even rocketplanes.  It would be fun to find out what secret aircraft we have not revealed.

Rick
Title: Re: Airplanes are really interesting!!!
Post by: formulanone on October 16, 2019, 07:03:38 AM
Quote from: US 89 on October 15, 2019, 10:55:40 PM
CRJ-200s are underrated.

In the way that stepping on a pull tab while barefoot – which hasn't happened to anyone in about 35 years – is underrated. I've heard from pilots that the CRJ-200 is like a little sports car, but for the rest of us with a seat number, it's like being stowed in its trunk. For all that, it's great for one thing: getting you a small airport that you'd likely normally never get to go to unless it's your hometown airport. 

But it's fun seeing the scale of the really big ones (like this Antonov AN124-100), something that's not always easy to do while it's in flight.

(https://live.staticflickr.com/4577/38817373252_1eac23d6d9_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/229abG5)
Title: Re: Airplanes are really interesting!!!
Post by: nexus73 on October 16, 2019, 08:13:23 AM
(https://acesflyinghigh.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/b-36aarrivalcarswell1948.jpg)

B-29 and B-36.  Big versus Huge!

Rick
Title: Re: Airplanes are really interesting!!!
Post by: JoePCool14 on October 16, 2019, 08:54:16 AM
Quote from: US 89 on October 15, 2019, 10:55:40 PM
CRJ-200s are underrated.

Airlines probably think that too. If only there was a way to eliminate the aisle and squeeze in a 5th seat to each row!